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By Bruno Coste, President of FIL by Adameo
Supply Chain Recruitment: Let's adapt to the pace and changes in the market!
The shortage of skills in the Transport, Logistics and Supply Chain professions has been accentuated by the pandemic. This phenomenon has become more pronounced and makes recruitment more complex, giving greater weight to the new expectations of candidates that we have been sensing for the past decade.
The search for a work/life balance, face-to-face/telework, affects all generations of candidates.
In addition, there is the need to identify the company's values and policies. Almost 100% of candidates now ask us about CSR.
Today we see two major developments:
First of all, the demands of applicants are increasing in terms of remuneration (applicants' demands have risen by more than 20% in two years), which creates a risk of imbalance with the pay scales applied to existing employees, and a real difficulty in positioning new jobs based on the digitalisation of our activities.
Secondly, good candidates are increasingly being chased away or simply recruited as soon as they arrive on the market, with placement times of less than one month, and increased mobility (even during the trial period) if the promise is not kept, as observed with the candidates themselves.
It is becoming necessary to adapt to these changes, to this new situation in order to get the "right recruitment" right the first time.
Three actions are needed:
- Review its processes to recruit faster,
- Thinkingoutside the box in terms of profiles, diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, relying in particular on the "soft skills" of candidates,
- Accepting salary increases - both internally and externally - as in any market under pressure, which implies building training paths and employee management adapted to this new situation.
This involves precise and upstream work on the DNA of the company, the positions and profiles sought in a desire for individual and collective consistency, which includes an analysis of the market and remuneration as well as a good evaluation of the candidates and the members of the organisation they are joining.
The professionalism of the recruiter and the existing "profiling" tools are prerequisites. It now seems essential to us to go through this process.
HIGHLIGHTS
Failures in the food industry
Deprived of Kinder eggs at Easter, the children could not even get their revenge by eating a good Buitoni pizza! Of course, these two cases of bacterial contamination are not identical. But the consequences are just as distressing and disastrous. Distressing for the families who were victims of the contamination by the E.coli bacteria found in the pizzas and which led the Paris public prosecutor's office to open an investigation for "deception on goods, exhibition or sale of corrupt or falsified food products harmful to health, placing on the market of a product harmful to health, endangering others, involuntary injury and involuntary manslaughter". Disastrous in terms of image for this famous brand, which is almost two hundred years old. And what about Ferrero, which is accused (as is the NGO Foodwatch) of having been slow to react to cases of salmonellosis, while many patients in nine different countries are suffering from gastroenteritis after eating the famous chocolates. Naturally, the courts will investigate to determine the level of responsibility. But what is certain is that these two examples reveal flaws in transparency and traceability.
This is undoubtedly an opportunity for the food industry to question its control and warning systems. And also to rely more on a robust Supply Chain, involved from the outset to implement procedures for recalling defective products. These health crises have demonstrated the need to react as quickly as possible. In this race against time, an efficient Supply Chain is obviously the best asset!
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